肌肉厚度,运动功能和回声强度之间的关联在社区居住的日本老年男性和女性中
Ken Nishihara1, Hisashi Kawai2, Manami Ejiri2
1Physical Therapy, Saitama Prefectural University, Koshigaya, JPN.
Cureus
|January 31, 2025
概括
老年人的肌肉缩与运动功能有关. 超声波测量显示,随着年龄的增长,肌肉厚度和质量的变化有性别差异,女性的变化更大.
科学领域:
- 老年学是一门学科.
- 肌肉骨健康 肌肉骨健康
- 生物医学成像技术 生物医学成像技术
背景情况:
- 肌肉缩,肌肉质量下降,是衰老的自然组成部分.
- 仅仅通过肌肉质量来评估运动功能,可能会忽视由于结缔组织增加而导致的肌肉质量下降.
- 了解肌肉质量,质量和功能之间的相互作用对于老年人来说至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 为了研究超声波测量肌肉厚度,运动功能和老年人的回声强度之间的关系.
- 为了澄清四头肌肌肉特征与年龄相关的变化如何与运动性能和质量相关.
主要方法:
- 超声波成像被用来测量110个社区居住的老年人的四个四肢肌肉的厚度和回声强度.
- 肌肉厚度,运动功能 (行走,肌肉力量) 和回声强度之间的相关性被分别分析为男性和女性.
- 对年龄进行控制的部分相关性分析.
主要成果:
- 在两种性别的肌肉厚度和运动功能之间发现了显著的相关性.
- 在女性中,肌肉厚度和回声强度在所有测量肌肉中都显著相关.
- 男人显示肌肉厚度和回声强度之间的显著相关性较少,在广的中介体中显著的例外.
结论:
- 性差异存在于肌肉厚度和回声强度之间的关系中.
- 与男性相比,女性可能会经历与年龄相关的肌肉质量下降更显著,以增加的回声强度为准.
- 这些发现强调了在老年人中考虑肌肉质量与肌肉质量一起的重要性,特别是关于基于性别的差异.
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